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FRANCIS JACKSON

NEW YORK

SREED & WARD

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CHAPTER ill

THE REAL FORCES AT WORK

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE CHUROH

" . oNE cannot even compare the League of Nations

to the,~anguage of Esop, " sa id L. Matin of Apri l 18th,

'936, because in the language of Esop there was good

and bad, whilst in the League of Nations there is only

bad. The League has not improved upon the method.

of the old di~lomacy, but it hasadded to them verbiage,

humbug, trickery and the washing of dirty linen in

public. It has not diminished the number of inter-

national differences, but has aggravated the importance

ofthem, bringing into play solidarit ies which complicate

eve rything and prevent nothing. It is not a can-

servatorium of peace but a game of grab, I t is not a

garden but a wilderness."

The above quotation is consoling, For too long the

League of Nations had disarmed criticism. The

justice meted out to it to-day by a great newspaper

announces the revenge of common sense and truth.

Heaven send that this revenge be prompt enough and

complete enough to ward off the revenge of Germany

on which the League lavishes its care, without,

however) neglecting to fan the embers On other hearths !

At whatever point the conflagration may break out,

it is to the League that we shall owe its origin. By its

insistence on disarming the peaceful and favouring

the rea rming of the warlike , the League has produced

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on the one side a depression and on the other side a

high pressure which give rise to storms so violent that

it is impossible to limit the scourge, For this reason

the next war, even if it is not. directly provoked at

Geneva, as the. crusade fer the Negus:would have been,

wiil be the war of the League of Nations.If the great public begins to get understanding,

perhaps we shill soon see freemas~nry aband?ning so

compromising a daughter, lest at should itself be

abandoned by its own clients. We hope that those

Catholics who are sti ll partisans of the League, in spite

of its origin, will not wait for the example of the

masonic lodges to recogn ize their error.

I have heard an eminent . ecclesiastic express the

same wish in these te rrns : HFaith, prudence and

discipline agree in forbidding us all compromise with

the League' of Nations: faith) because there is a

contradiction between our creed and an institution

which sets itself up to be a new religion, a religionwhich;' really the opium of the nations, although it

was founded by those who denounce Catholicism as

the opium of the people; a religion which claims to

substitute itself. if not for God, at any rate for PrOV1-

dence ; a rcligitm which, if i t recrui ted i ts missionaries

from amongst us, would soon. l ight in Fr .a nc e1 following

the example of the Russian and Spanish 'revolut ions, a

diabolical spiritual hearth; a religion which by tile

voice of freemasonry announces (to adopt the expres-

sion of M, Jean Guiraud in L a C ro ix ) the disappearan7 eof all fatherlands in the great whole; then will

humanity adore itself." .The contradiction which exists between the baSIC

laws of the institutions is not less irreconcilable than

that between their doctrines, The Church of Rome

is an absolute monarchy; the Church. of Geneva, in

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th~ory a democratic republic, is in fact a masked

oligarchy. Between the two there is nothing in

common but the word "pe,ace." But in Rome the

word is a truth; to the Father of the faithful the

brotherhood of men and nations is not an empty

formula. At Geneva, however, the word is a lie a

:reil .under. the . s h;elter of which national egois :m,insatiable imperialisms and subversive internationals

conspire against peace. It is on this ground that

human wisdom and prudence meet and are in accord

with the divine wisdom to drive us- away from Geneva,

T~eFrench clergy must not forget the campaign,

evidently of masonic ~ri~n> organized in August, 1914~

to thrust t~e _respons,bllity for the catastrophe upon

them, This Infamous rumour pointed an accusing

fin~er at the clergy as the ally of the enemy. Do you

believe that the memory of their heroes would warn

the c~ergy.against a recurrence of the same calumny,

'~sp~clallr if there were any foundation for it in the

lndlsc~etlOnsof some of their members? In the event

of such a second attack upon the cle rgy the" infamous

:umour n would become more specific and wider in

Its scope and would exploit in a gene raliza tion" more

co:war?ly than ,co~rageolLS, the pacif ism of a noisy

nunorr ty to dedicate to public vengeance and punish-

ment all French priests, by denouncing them as the

agents of a foreign sovereign. The government of the

Republic-s-or freemasonry, for it is the same thing-is

an adept in this manceuvre which it made use of in

'9'4 following the example of 1792 and 1871. In

l.g- the nccusanon would be much more dange rous,

because less unlikely, if those amongst 'Uswho have

been. deceived, persevere in their error iIf spite of

the blunt contradiction of events. Must we wait until

this contradiction is stained with blood? Then it

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would be too late. The criminals who through their

fanatic ism, or their unscrupulous ambition to achieve

political success". expose 'us to the risk of war would

then succeed in turning' upon the priests the anger of

the people. The Church of France has better things

to do than to provide them with a scapegoat.

The Church ofI taly shows the way to the Church of

France . Its prelates brought into tile Italian treasury

the gold from their pastoral crosses and supported the

high morale ofthe nation by the pen and the spoken word.

This attitude which did not suggest any zeal for the

League, the ally of Ethiopia, has never been censured

by the Holy See. On the contrary, His Holiness,

Pius XI., forma lly condemned bolshevism which is the

other ally of Geneva. Is there not in that condemna-

tion a tacit and a stronger condemnation a fortiori of

that institution which is the home of all the abettors of

war and revolution? The sacrilegious theologians of

the League would say that the League of Nations is apm-e entity and that it has an existence in itself, in se.

They would say that the evils which spring from it are

but fortuitous, Of, at the most, distinct entities. But the

'time is past when some can profit "b y evasion and the

others are victims of anxiety; ever since, by a

unanimous movement, the Church of France gave its

adherence to the stirring words uttered in its name a

few months ago to the Ambassador s of France in a great

hall in Paris. It was then that we saw advancing with

a cortege of prelate" a prince of the Church who wore

upon his breast the cross, the symbol of divine love.

We heard him speaking, to an immense crowd, words

which passed beyond that crowd to the cars of all

Christendom, an ardent Christmas message which

finds. a ll. echo in the cantic les of the .angels in heaven,

Peace to men of good will. What is the meaning of

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tills message? What is the name of that new star

which shines tremblingly in the night to guide. the

great human family towards a bette r future? e c It15/'

sai~ His. Eminence Cardinal Verdier, Uthe Inter-

national of Love through the communion of souls.

This sta r is at the Antipodes of Geneva-a land without

a heaven except for the clouds that obscure it-which

by i ts tenacity in provoking a fright fu l carnage amongs t

Christian peoples, in order to satiate the spite of free~

masonry against Mussolini, is the International of

Hate,"

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS ANp ISRAEL

I do not wish to draw down upon my devoted head

the thunders of that eminent ecclesiastic by under-

taking the defence of freemasonry, It would be a had

cause. The accused has confessed, or rather has been

betrayed by one of the governments which received

the project of '!F7, a project not purely academic

since the Covenant of the League was a faithful

reproduct ion of i ts sp ir it} especially in i ts appl icat ion.

Let us read, for example, art. if. of the project: "A

people which is not free, that is to say~ which docs not

possess democratic and liberal institutions indispensable

to its development canno t con s ti tu te (J. nation."

When it i s taken li terally th is text allows an exclusion

which is not cons isten t with the claim to universali ty ,

especially s ince " democrat ic and l iberal insti tut ions . .

have suffered so many damaging attacks, The first

article of the Covenant re,stricts itself to saying that

H every state which is f reely governed 0 can become

a member of the League. In law this formula is the

wider, a lthough l iable to the most arb itrary interpreta-

tions. In fact a mental restriction derives from it the

same excommunications as from the masonic text.

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Liberty at Geneva and in the masonic lodge has the

same meaning: HEvery licence for us and our friends

and no right for the others," The Soviets who possess

(' democratic institutions» are above the laws and

participate in the right divine of Revolution. Hence

ca :me the violation of a ll international engagements

and of fensive war s against Poland and persia . Hence

came the massacre and martyrdom of a whole people,

the people of Georgia. These are pious works!

Abyssinia is the worst and cruellest slave-dealing

country in the whole world, but the choice of a man

from the lef t wing, M. Je~e ,to represent Abyssinia at the

League of Nations attest, a praiseworthy effort to

develop in the direc tion of liber al institutions. More-

over, the enemy of our enemy is . our friend. Hurrahfor the Negus! And let the hue and cry be started

against I ta ly which, because it drove out freemasonry,

t.cannot be regarded as a nation." _

However, are we not paying too great an honour to

fr eemasonry when we attribute to it the grea test sha re

in the genesis of the League of Na tions and in responsi-

bil ity for its. acts? Is not this secret society a. society

with limited responsibility, not only by reason of its

mental weakness , but also because it is, above all else ,

the ins t rument of forces more secret still and more to

be feared? Is it not unjustly accused of all the sins of

Jewry? And if freemasonry is but an instrument,

then President Wilson was but the instrument of an

instrument.Amongst the first and the most liberal subscribers

towards the propaganda in favour of the League

appeared the London bankers. Michelet was doubt-

less right when he wrote: "It is said that the Jews

have ~Q country of their OVVIl. They have. It. is the

London Stock Exchange," That, statement 10 not

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quite exact. Just as Great Britain has shared the

mastery of th: seas with her emancipated daughter,

so the republic of the United States has shared with

Great Britain the capita l of Israel, In this Ias t par ti tion

the word mastery must be understood in a different

sense. It i s passive rather than act ive" . it is submittedto rather than. exercised, The mastery of the seas is .

almost equally divided, but the mastery of Israel is

unequally endured. It is more complete in Wall

Street than in the City of London. It is the more

complete in the United States of America because it

is there the more discreet. I t is a force '~f which it

cannot. be sa id, a s of the milita ry force in OUT colonies,

according to Lyautcy, that it is paraded in order to

av~id .i~s employment; on the contrary, it is . a force

:"hlch IS only applied efficaciously on condition that

it is not openly paraded. It has ways and means more

~idden, more sinuous and sure r than. public subscrip-

tIon~. The preponderant part played by the great

JewIsh bankers in the Russian revolution need not be

demonstrated. They let it loose upon the world Jn

conjunction with Germany whence they came and

where they had their associates.

When Berlin sent Lenin and Trotsky into Russia in

co~par tments hermetically sealed like tubes of patho-

genic cul ture , the object ive was quite clear ; it was to

corrupt the Russian anny by revolution and to carry

treason from Brest-Litcvsk in order to recall to the

French front the sixty German divisions which would

thus become available . The object ive of international

finance in New York is more obscure. To the extent

t~latit was American it betrayed its country of adop-

tlO~ and gave an example of the general antagonism

of Interests which exists between nations and capital,

anonymous and vagabond. As a matter of fact

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bolshevism, which is the Russian adaptation of

ManUsm, that i s, the material is t concept ion of society ,

proposed to i tsel f, by and on behal f of the dictatorshlp

of the proletar' ia t, to indust ria li ze Russ ia to the ful lest

possible extent. In this project it has alreacl! partly

succeeded. From the economic point of view this

meant organizing agains t the Uni ted States of America

a most formidable competition. By reason of its

immens.e possibilities) its inexhaustible resources ~

raw materials of every description, the fertility of its

soil and the diversity of it. climate, the abundance of

labour, the plasticity and passivity of its ' populati~n,

and, finally, its position between Europe and ASIa,

Russia, when once i t isequipped, wil l be the only COUll try

able to compete with the United States for the

economic lordship of the world. In the match be tween

these two heavyweights the international Finance of

the United States will have trained the adversary.

From the political point of view bolshevism, the" colt " of the New York bankers, is no less opposed

to American interests. The whole of the diplomacy

of the - i N asbington cabinet is dominated by the rivalry

of Japan for the control of the Pacific and of China.

Hence it is dr iven to find in.Russia the a lly on the other

s ide, whom we ourselves looked for agains t Germany,

when Russia and Germany were neighbours. Now,

if bolshevism Americanized or Germanized in

mechanical technique, is capable of developing the

economic power of Russia it could only enfeeble its

military power and its value as a counte rpoise aga inst

Japanese expansion. In fact, despi~e the. revival .of

Slavonic n .ationali sm under the SOVIet f'gtm~ and Its

ultra-militarist nature, it has not been able to maintain

the position of Czarist Russia in the Far Eas~ where,

on the contrary, Japan is advancing with giant

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strides, Finally as the social order in the United

States, more than in any other country, is based on

capitalism, it is impossible that any other sentiment

but of horror for a revolution founded on. undiluted

communism should there exist.

Why are the Now York bankers, along with the

Gennan General Staff, the responsible authors of the

Russ- ian revolution? Are they, then, a fortiori the

authors of all revolutions, since for them, in the

conflict be tween the intere sts of their own country

and, as i t seems, their ind iv idual in terests on the one

side, and the revolution on the other side, it is the

revolution which wins? The solidarity of faitb which

obtains between the New York bankers and the

bolshevist leaders and the feelings inspired amongst the

Jews by their suf ferings in Czarist Russia are not a

sufficient explanation of this paradox.

The paradox is not a mystery. Ifit is to he regarded

as a mystery, the key comes to us of its own accord,even when the gua rdian s o f the tem ple do not sur r ender

it. I met one of them at Budapest in 'gig, a few days

after the fall of Bela-Kuhn, driven out by the Rourna-

niau army. The capital ofHungary, being an excellent

base for the conquest of Central Europe by the

bolshevists, had become their General Headquarters.

A few of the most eminent stategists of the revolution

had installed themselves in Budapest under cover of

commercial, financial and even humanitarian missions.

Misery and famine were then ravaging all the Danubian

countries. The majority of thesebolshevists had

remained at their posts after the occupation of the

town by the Roumanians. To avoid protests from the

Supreme Council which was then in session in. Paris,

the liberators of Hungary had not expelled these

strategists of the revolution. In this affair all the

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thunders of the Council were reserved, not for the

bolshevists, but for the Roumanian gendarmerie who

by suppressing this centre of?l?~dy.anarchy had saved,

in spite of itsel f , Western Civilization In that part of

Europe. In the following year Pol~[ld was to. save

Western. Civilization, a second time In spite of Itself,

by driving back the Soviet hordes. The pressure

exerted on Roumania, first to 'prevent her from

occupying Hungary, then to compel .herto evacua~e

it before Hungary's complete restoration to health, III

case she refused to obey the Supreme Council, went as

far as a threat to regard as null and void the under-

takings of the allies, subject to which Roumania had

entered the war against the central powers. General

Smuts, the delegate from South Africa on the ~upreme

Council was even. charged with a special IIllSSlOO to

Bela-Kuhn, who, though an enemy of the allied

nations, cut a figure as the ally of their govermnen:s

against another allied nation. Let us observe that if

the League had as yet no official .e.xist:n~e-it ..was the

treaty of'Versailles which was tobe Its birth c~rtlficat:~

it was already obligingly constituted for this occas~on

and was. functioning secretly. It was even then trying

out its powers against Ro·umania. and in favour .of

bolshevism in the manner of '920 IIIface of the SOVIet

attack on Poland. In both crises the inspiration came

from the same source. In '919 President WilsoII, the

master of the Supreme Council, the godfather and the

father, at any rare hy adoption, of the Le~gue of

Nations, forced upon the Supreme Cow;cll that

scandalous partiality in favour of bolshevism. In

1920, even if Wilson had quitted the poli~cal scene,

the same hidden powers ofwhich he was the Instrument

still protected the Soviets,

This situation explains how the masked alljes of

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Bol~-Kuhn had remained a t Budapest after hi. defea t

and how it was possible to meet them at the table. of

the allied missions of which some of them were

members. This fact was very convenient for them

and enabled them to accomplish their other mission.

They drank Tokay with as much gusto at allied tables

as at the table of Bela-Kuhn, and when they had

drunk more Tokay than the children who were their

off icial proteges had drunk of milk, their tongues were

loosened. A number of Jewish revolutionaries who

had been expelled from Hungary were there after the

Armistice" They wore American uniforms. Their

reports to Wilson inspired the policy of the Supreme

Council in Central Europe. I have retained in my

memory the conversation of one of these augur s whose

table neighbour I was at one of those international

dinners which are the best school but the most

dangerous reef for diplomacy. H~-had become a

director of a great New York bank, one of those whichwere fin. ancing the bolshevist revolution. He was not)

however, ;;,_fixed to the ground like a strong box," as

Louis Philippe said of Casimir Perier. On the

contrary, he had intelligence in his speciality and a

readiness to make any effort to reach higher regions.

Like a good Oriental his speech was couched in

imagery to which his active mind gave an intellectual

development. A fellow guest had asked him how it was

possible. for. high finance to. protect bolshevism, a

system hostile to that movable property whose

existence is necessary for the banking industry, and

also to those riches which are represented by land and

buildings, not less a necessity for banking. Our friend

who was then at the head of a mission for feeding

those who were without bread, swigged off a big glass

of Tokay, paused for a moment, taking a long pull at

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his enormous cigar which had cost five golden francs

and then said :.< Those who are astonished at our alliance with the

Soviets forget that the nation of Israel is the most

nat ionalis t of all peoples, for it is the most ancient , the

most united and the most exclusive. They forget that

its nationalism is the most heroic because it has resisted

the most terrible persecutions. They forget that it is

also the purest nationalism, since it is the most spiritual;

it has existed through the centuries in spite of all

obstacles without any territory to give it strength.

Like the papacy, it is cecurncnica l and spiritual. But

its eyes arc turned towards t~1C future rather than the

past and its kingdom is of this world. .' .HThat is why it is the salt of the earth, yet it is, as

they say on the boulevards, l e p l u, d es s. 1< ?fnationalis~s,

which means that the world decants It and despoils

it.n

A s a few of the guests received the last statement

with an Irrepressible smile , the sage of Sion replied

with this comment: HWhen I say • d espoils,' I mean

that the 'wine of our nat ionali sm, i s the most dr inkable;

in the world; it loa. the finest bouquet, and the

nations of the world absorb it with the greatest easel'

with delight and without a headache in the morning.

But, to return to the subject of salt, do yo~ kno~ the

saying of the men who salt cod fish P I picked U .up

on the fishing grounds of Newfoundland. Here 11 :LS :

! Too much salt corrodes meat} too little lets it rot.'

The precept can with justice be applied both to the

human mind and to the peoples of the earth. We,

Jews, apply it wisely as it should be applie~, s~lt

being the emblem of wisdom. We mingle rt dis-

creetly with the bread that men c?nsume .. We

administer it in corrosive doses only In exceptional

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~ases, when it is necessary to ge t rid of the debris of an

Immoral past, as in the case of Czarist Russia. That

gIVClIyou a partial explanation why bolshevism finds

favour In our eyes; it is an admirable salting tub in

which to corrode and destroy and not to preserve.

~ut beyond. and above this particular instance we are

In communion with Marxism in i ts purest form in the

!n~ernational, in other words with 6ur religion, because

.rt 1S the w.eapon of our nationalism, in turn defensive

and offen~lve, buckler and sword. You will say thatMarxism " the very antithesis of capitalism which is

k equally sacred to us. It isprecisely for the reason that

I':hey are direct opposite. to one another, that they put

Cnto our .hand.' the two poles of this planet and allow

us to be Its axis. These two contraries, like bolshevism

Iand ourselve~, find t!'eir identity in the International.

These opposites which are at the antipodes to one

~no~her in society and in their doctrines 'meet again

ill the identity of their purpose and end, the remaking1 of the world from abov~ by the control of riches, and

from below by revolution, For centuries Israel has

been segregated from Christianity, thrust into the

ghetto to exhibit to the faithful what is called the

evidence of the ancient law, in a humiliation which

the~ declare to be a punishment for the crime of

slaying God. An.d this fate ~aved us and, through us,

will. save humanity, In this way we preserved our

genrus and our .~lne mission. To-day it is we who

are th~ true faithful. OUf_ miss ion consi sts in pro-

mulgalI.ng the. n:w law and in creating a God, that is

to say in ~unfymg the idea of God and realizing it

wh~n th: t~me.shallcome. We shall putifj> that idea

by identifying It with the notion of Israel which has

be~Olne its own Messiah. The advent of it will be

facilitated by the final triumph of Israel. In these

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ideas We find our New Testament in which we recon-

cile kings and prophets, as David the prophet-king

and the king-prophet united them in his own person.

We are king' that the prophecies may be fulfilled, and

we are prophets that we may not cease to be kings."

Thea the "king-prophet" drank another glass of

Tokay. A sceptic raised this objection: "Don't you

risk being the martyrs of this Messiah whose prophets

and apostles you are? For though your nationalism

may be despoiled, it also sometimes despoils .other

nations. If you despise riches you do not disdain

them altogether, as a means not of enjoyment but

power. How is it possible for the triumph of the

Universal Revolution, the destroyer and denier of

capitalism, to 'prepare th e triumph of Israel which is

the sacred ark of this same capitalism? "

"I am not ignorant of the fact that Jeroboam

spread the cult of the Golden Calf from Dan to Beth~l,

and that Revolution is, in our days, the chiefpriestess of this cult and the most d!lig~nt prov~der of

its tabernacles. If the Golden Calf IS still standing, rts

most comfortable pedestal .is undoubtedly the tomb

of empires. In the first place revol,:~on is ne~er

anything but the displacement of _pnvileg."s which

arise from wealth. It is not the creation of riches, nor

even their exploitation which feeds the Golden Calf,

it is above all else the mobilization of wealth, the soul

of speculation, which feeds it. The more frequently

wealth changes hands, the more of it. remains i;n ,our

hands. We are the 'brokers who receive commissions

on all exchanges, or, if you prefer the express ion, we

are toll-gatherers who control the crossways of the

world and collect a tax on all movements of that

wealth which is ~anonymous and vagabond ,' whether

such movements are from country to country, or, are

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the oscillations of market prices. To the calm and

monotonous song of prosperity we prefer the passionate

voices, raised in tum, of a rise and fall in market values.

There is nothing like a revolution to excite them, unle$S

.it is a war which is also a revolution. Then again

revolution enfeebles nations and puts them .in a

condi tion in which they can least res is t foreign enter. .

prises, The health of our Golden Calf call, for the

sickness of certain nations) those which are incapable

of developing themselves by their own efforts, On

the contrary we are in close associat ion with the great

modern states such as France~ England, the Uni ted

States, Italy, etc., who are represented at this tab le.

They have entertained us wi .th generous hospi ta lity

and with them we are collaborating for the progress of

civilization. On the other hand, let us take, for

example, Turkey before the war, ; t he sick rnan of

Europe,' as the diplomats used to say. This C sick

man} was necessary to our health for he shower,ed'Upon us concessions of all kinds: banks, mines; ports,

railways, etc. The whole economic life of Turkey was

entrusted to "Us. We looked a fte r him .0 well, that he

died of the treatment, at least as far as Turkey in

Europe was concerned. LOoking at things from the

vulgar point of view of the accumulation of 'Wealth

for the purpose of accomplishing Our mission, we

wanted another 'sick man.' That need would by

itself have been a suff icient reason, beyond all higher

cons iderat ions, for : inoculat ing pre-war Russia with

bolshevism. Russia is now the sick man of post-war

times, much more nutritive to us than the Ottoman

Empire and much less able to defend itself. Russia

is our new feast. It will soon be a corpse and our onlytrouble wil l be to carve it up."

At the other end of the table sat a co-religionist. He

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. f th ogue and had waitedas the "ifa~t terrible 0 . e synag " ;. d Hew 1 0 'cal moment to get m his wor .

fo~e~:~?C~oT;':y take us for birds of prey, we areen . bi d ."rather carrion ,.lr s, . . a red the apologist for" Well , yes, If you insist, rep.1 - _ carrion

faith "but please add that we arethe new rat , d f h manity for its moral health,b irds for the goo 0 U , '. _d h iene arejust as in countries whe;~ samtauon an thY~ carrion

in a rudimentary condition there arc ~ eAdd also

birds for the physical health of ~~e !~:~c~he forces of

that our essential dy~a~smf I D e a ' tion but uses the f irstd - . andthe forces o cr -) _'estruc~on d What indeed were countrres

to nourish the seconn. _ . and even pre-war

like pre-war Tur.key~prd"al-wa~g~u.sSlaand-ts latifundia Pith Its leu ' re zm

Hungary WI - 1 d limbs which spoilt all movementsTh ey were para yse . - ther dots of blood in theof the world. They were ~a . ht hring about its

circulation of Euw_pe ~hlch. ~g blood vessels. Bydeath by obliterating its v:!, to the current of blood

dissolving them w~ restore t~e b d. If in the course

circulating t~rough thedwho eft~ i~ liqu~fied blood are

ofthe ope~bon, a fewr:p~i~turb -ourselves? It is ascattered , why should . W b fit One of our

paltry price for a~ lIDmen.see

: ~ e'people, are an

countrymen h~s ~ald t~a~t~e; has said that we

organized maJ0rJty.. An are conservers ofare revolutionarie s' because we f the new world

ourselve s. In the 'manageI?-enJ 0 both for revolu-

we give proof of our ~rgamz~~; organization for

tion and f~r co~,servatJonb destructive bolshevism

\

reVOIUtiOn is evidenced y . f the League. the ereabon 0

and for construction by. k Bolshevism is

of Nations which is also our w~r i~ the brake on

the accelerator and. the Leagu I both the motiveI the mechanism of which we supp y

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iforce and theguidin ' . ''" already de! . gd power. What IS the end? It

a synthetic an;r~~ne. by our ~i$!JiQI}. Israel isf mogeneous nation It· :6o elements scattered th h . IS armedbut cast in the flame r~~g out the whole world,

We are a League of N ,ou.r faith 10 ourselves.elements of all . auons which contains theus to unite th ot~ers, It is this fact which qualifies

e nations around us Wbeing the agent whi h di I . e are accused ofpoints which are i~ 193,0 yes them. It is only at

national elements, of ,:~~~ous I ? t: synthesis of

and the means that. ours ,IS oth the examplebreak the 'c we act as a diseolvent. We do not

surrace except t k' 'below the affinities which dO awa en in the, depthsother. We are not the . 0not ye t recogmze each

nations except to becg::atest c~mmon divisor ofthe

tfederator. Israel is the- --~ their greatest common

the City of the Future." microcosm and the germ of

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS WHICHPETROGRAD ' WAS _HATCHED OUT IN

WAS CONOEIVED IN BERLIN

As I was going back to m b Iaccompanied by the sc ti Y late along the Danube,

HDid this pro het lie bee ca gue.st, he said to me :

of contTadicto~ obli ti cause, bemg .under the swayand th lli I ga oris toward. hIS co-religionists

e a es, ne was between t Isp_eak t he truth, because he had d

WOr l_ too£s , or did he

wine and was a bit i ,'_ ru a ew glasses of

li tl- - it intoxicated P Probably th

t e of both. On certain .,. ere was aformed too closely to that u pomts hIS language con-

not to reflect their t Isehdby the other prophets

Mac ua t ought D'd v 1arx glorify hath d I" I, not ""ar

of societies? ' WasW~tTant rL'~voution as the mid~iy.es

k. . no assalle wbo t d h

~o:r ers to be taught their ow wan e t eIS notch. best manner of t a h n wretchedness? And

eac ing them to reduce them

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to a condition of misery? And is not a revolution

which is aimed at the decomposition of a nation

quicker and more complete if all dasses are made

wretched, if they are handed ove r to Chinese tortur ers

as in Russia, or to Bela-Kuhn as in Hungary? His

gas tronomic metaphors, with reference to the prepara-

tion of the nations by revolution to make them eXactly

fit for consumption. remind us of the beetles used by

cooks to mortify (such is the technical term) meat

which is too fresh, in order to make it tender for the

table, Have you ever noticed that when these peoples

speak of C advanced countries' they do so in terms of

horrible greediness which suggest the kitchen and a

delectable odour of game? No doubt all is not pure

invent ion in his story of those twin brothers Bolshevism

and the League of Nation', moving in the heart of

international High Finance at New York,. which

destine. one of them to overturn the world and the

other to regenerate it, What is your- opinion? l'I had no opinion to offer. Since then, however, 1have often thought about it, Ithink of it to-day as Iread the list of the 200 families who as a body represent

the industrial power of France} the national por tioil

of the wall of money, the economic bastion in the

rampart of the city, whatever may be the misdeeds of

certain of its members. The names of the carrion

eaters, those who are wa iting impatiently till France

shall be ready for them and who, to speed up her

col lapse) are: f inancing communism_, are not wri tt en

in this Book of Gold, 'The hrotherhood of bolshevism and the League of

Nations was no novelty for me. However, the only

sign of it I knew was so trivial that I should not have

remembered i t, i fi t had not der ived the f irst suggest ion

of confirmation from the cODversat ions i n te r p o cu la at

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force and the guiding power. What is the end?

/i s already determined by our mission, Israel is

a synthetic and homogeneous nation. It is , formed.

of elements scattered throug.hout the whole world,

but cast in the flame of our faith in ourselves.

We are a. League of Nations which contains the

le lemtnt. of a ll others. It is this fact which qualifies

us to unite the nations around us, We are accused of

being the agent which dissolves them. It is only at

points which are impervious to that synthesis of

national elements, of which our s is both the example

and the means, that we act as a dissolvem. We do not

break the surface except to awaken in the depths

below the affinities which do not yet recognize each

other. We are not the greatest common divisor of the

nations except to become their greatest common

federator. Israel is the microcosm and the germ of'the City of the Future."

THE LEAGUE. OF NATIONS WHICH WAS !lATCHED OUT IN

PETROGRAD WAs OONCEJ:VED IN BERLIN

A. I was going back to my hotel along the Danube,

accompanied by the sceptical guest, he said to me:

" Did this prophet lie because, being under the sway

of contradictory obligations towards his co-religionists

and the allies, he was between two stools, or did he

speak the truth, because he had drunk a few glasses of

wine and was a bit intoxicated? Probably there was a

little of both. On certain points his language con-

formed too closely to that used by the other prophets

not to reflect their actual thought. Did not Karl

Marx glorify both war and revolution as the midwives

of societies? Was it not Lassalle who wanted tbe

workers to be taught their Own wretchedness? And

is not the best manner of teaching them to reduce them

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. . .se ? And is not a revolutIOnto a condition of rru ry. -' 0- ; f a nation. . imed at the decomposiuon 0

which IS aim - I. if all classes are made

quicker a~d. mor e c ~ ~ r d : ~ve r to C hin ese - torture~s

wr~tched, Ifthey :eBe la_Kuhn as in Hungary? H15

as In Russia, or with reference to the prepara-gastronorruc metaphors, ii t make them exact ly

tion of the natio,:,s by rev:, u ~sno~ the beetle s used byfit for consumpnon, rernl.nd h . _, term) meat

'fy (uch IS the tee me",cooks to mornr s, d ke it tender for thewhich. i s too fresh , an or ~r ~o~~ when these peoples

table, Have you ever notIc,e ~ they do so in t erms of

spea~ of ' adv~nced (:o~n~r~~ est the kitchen and a

horrib le greediness whice ? i 7 0 doubt all is not pure

delectable. od~ur of gaIDth~se twin brothers Bolshevisminvention inhis story of .. . (lying in the heart ofand the League of N~tlOns, m N' York which. .. -, Hi h Fmance at ew ".""internataonar . g t the world and thedestines one of them to over _urn "it "

. . What IS yom opUllOn .other to regen~r~te rt. offer Since then, however, I

I had no opmion to .' I hink of it to-day as I

have often thonght ab~u~: ~o as a body representread the list of the 200 a F Its w th national portion

the industrial power of, ~~nce, o~c bastian in the

of the wall of money, t e eeonbe

the misdeeds of' -hatever rnay

rampart of ~e City, W The names of the ca-rrioncertain of Its members. .. . patiently till France

ca ter s, those who are wrutm~ l~ to speed up her

shall be ready for ~hem an w. ~ are not writtencollapse; are financing commun iS ,

in this Book of Gold. I hevi and the League ofThe brotherhood of bo s evism However the only

Nations was no novelty. f~r . ::re ilia t I should not have

s ign of i t I k ,: ,e ,, :,~as '% trlV~erived the first suggestion

remembe.red.lt~ Iflt ha hDot

onve-rsatlons i n t e T p o c u l a atof confirmation from, tee

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Budapest. A few month b fIthe war, still. in the bala e ore when the result of

seemed quite de . . ance on the western frontof the R . sperate .on the eastern front as a result'

ussian revolution I h d . 'visit from Albert Th "' a received at Jassy alli omas , There our R .a es were putting' . fi oumamanagainst the enemy uPAla

bereTeaud energetic resistance

. .. crt lOmas was t th .our representative in the ne R . . a at timewere blinded to th w .. USSla. The all ies, who

by their scholastic ~:atu~e of the Russian revolution

had at fir st saluted it mo:~s ~f the French revolution,

Russia to defend th ;'th ejawn of. a mass-rising in

e ja or and again t th .to the bitter end. The had . s e invaderto recall their amha ~ thought It a clever move

speak from a warli~s;e~~:u~ho were ill-qua lified to

replace them by socialist lead~nary platform, and to

Mr . . Henderson who tried out[)iiri England.had sent

for his future position of ch . . s powers ill Russia

Conference at Geneva b. airman of the Disarmamentcrusade of demo . y a. n ardent advocacy of the~craCleSagainsr i . '_!

was then the last-born - Impen~srns. Rus~agreatest, fondest hop of dem

locracies, and the

Ves were pad· h

andervelde joined M H d co. m .er. M.

Belgium. Then Alb t\'h en erson III the name of

the job of getting tbee~. am;:" was put in charge of

again. To-day the «u:sIan s~eam-roller " at work

France and crushin h s eam-rolle- " is rolling over

self to the task of ~et:r. .M. Thomas applied him-

into it the spirit of its a ~ ~ e : : o : o o v e by breathing

that he came to Jassy not s: , t was through meaction the .00 000 R '., cIThtamly to galvanize into .

. .;, ussrans W 0 heldlettmg go their hold tb R .' or, rather, werebut to furnish evidence f f; usso...Roumanian front,

mania Being on th a . our sympathy with Rou-entert~n--any del ~e s pot rt was impossible for me to

usrons whatever with regard to the

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Russians. Roumania was in a tragic situation, a prey

to famine and epidemic" completely surrounded by

her enemies and betrayed by the only ally with whom

she was in contact, yet still she put up an heroic

defence of the last little corner of her territory which

remained free from the invader. Albert Thomas was

the most intelligent and most patriotic of all the men

of the extreme left whom I have met. With complete

contempt for fatigue and danger he S'luandered his

powers and energies to bring to the troops in the

front line a salutat ion {rom France. His chief mission

was to galvan ize into action the RU39ian army and he

took advantage of his stay in Ja s s y to vis i t the whole

of the Russo"Roumanian front and to spread the

good word a long it, which he did by making a score

of speeches every day to the ears of as many units.

Iaccompanied him on one of his rounds. Iadmired

hi s zeal, his endurance and his eloquence all the more

because this apostle had no belief in the Word, noteven. in his own. His harangues, or rather his

harangue, for it was always the same, was a medley

of Kar l Marx and Deroulede, a hymn to the revolution

and a blast on the bugJe. Karl Marx only intervened

to make the audience swallow Deroulede, who clearly

had the orator's preference. He put in to his speeches

such heat that at a temperature of 20 degrees below

zero the sweat ran down his face in the open air. To

this oratorical torrent succeeded a f lood of champagne

of an execrable German brand, the gift of the German

troops opposite. As soon as the first symptoms of the

Russian -revolution appeared on the front, companies

of fraternization had been formed amongst the

Germans to accelerate the decomposition of the

enemy front. After he had kissed the officers on the

mouth and given his benediction to the soldiers he

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departed to the accompaniment 'of frenzied appla

Fro,:" the .luxurio,:" disorder of his hair the Rus:

soldiers mistook him for a French p a p a s . They th

de~erted m masse. He was conscious of the fu ti li t y :~thi~ apostolate, and yet his fervour was not diminished.

Th,S made ~e compare him to the hero of a story by

Jules, Lemaltre, a certain. Screnus who suffered

ma:ty~do,:" for having blasphemed the gods without

be~e."lUg lEI God. He did this, through dilettantism or

~;OICIS~,~ ~oplease himsel f. In his torture he cried out ,

No, It IS not as usele ss as it seems for I spread the

good seed." M. Thomas said, U I do not deceive

myself as to the merits afmy eloquence, nor do I waste

my powers for these moujiks. The greater part of my

speech, the .whole paraphrase from Karl Marx, except

the adaptation, more or less made up for the circum,

stances, of. th~ holy wa~ .and I in the name of social

jUSI:lC~ a!l'alw,t capitalistic militarism,' I served up to

the,~usslans in the same terms a. I did to my socialistaudiences at Belleville and Menilmontant

! t is a ICUriOUS and, at the same time, a"humiliat ing

thing for orators that the Russian soldiers, who did not

un,derstand a word of what I told them, the translation

being ~ade only e n b lo c after the speech, applaudedexactly In ~e same places as their Paris ian comrades.

In. ,an oration there is in the action the gesture the

look~ something' which commands appla:.us~, ind~pen-

dent:)! of the sense of the ,words. Eloquence is physical,

not mtelle~tu",!. But did you notice that the only

passage which inspired enthusiasm when the interpre-

tator translated it was the one I had made up especially

for them, th~ speech on the future League ofNations ?"

The laughing, even mischievous, eyes of Albert

Thomas became suddenly mystical when he pro-

nounced that holy name. There only, said he, was an

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ideal which was worth living, and even dying f~r.

And he had been recommended at Moscow to h?lSt

this Labarum-i'u hoc signa vinces-in front of RUSSlan

rroops to stir them up by the mirage of a future,

worthy of all sacrifices, the perpetual peace of the

nations reconciled in justice . Albert Thomas was not

wrong in placing' his Gonfiden.,e in the future League

of Nations. When next year he was summoned, not

todie heroically for the League, but to live comfortably

for it, I understood hi ? zeal. His position as directorof the International Bureau of Geneva crowned his

paradoxical destiny to his heart's desire, Like every

good socialist demagogue, he had hurled anathemas

at war in his election meetings, hut he had preached

war to the bitter end on the Russian front. He had

branded (with infamy) cannon merchants a n ? de-mandcd in his confessions of faith the suppreSSIon of

the "hudgets of death" to the profit of budgets of

life, Yet after entering the government as Under

Secretary of State for artillery, he had become all-

powerful as Minister for Munitions and had, in .a.few

months, spent with the cannon merchants ~oTe millions

than they had pocketed in several centuries ; finally

he had aroused the indignation of crowds agamst

perquisites and pickings, but he bec~me a beneficiary

of the biggest di,tributor of stipends 10Europe, But I

am wrong in attributing to this fact his faith in Geneva.

I make honourable amends to his memory for there

was something else. .Those who look for the truth elsewhere thau ill

official documents know that President Wilson, whose

election had been financed by the Great Bank of

New York rendered almost complete ohedience to

its beck a~d call. They-know the famous telegram,

Or rather the telegram which was destined to be

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famous, addressed on May 28th, '9'9, from New York

to Mr. Wil,on by Jacob Schiff to dictate to him

co~~essions for Germany on the five following points :

regzme of reparations> Upper Silesia, Sarre, Dantzig

and Flume. Up to the receipt of this telegram Mr .Wilson had vigorous ly supported Clemcnceau's point

of view> but he at once cha:nged his attitude in order

to conform to the word of command from the Associa-

tion fortbe. League of Free Nations, directed by

Jacob H. Schi ff and five other American f inanciers, an

association in the name of which the cablegram was

sent, His change of direction having determined a

majority against France, the treaty of Versailles on

these f ive grave quest ions Was dictated by Jacob H.

Schiff and his co-religionists.

But it was not known to what point those who called

themselves the masters of the hour and of the future

were servile masters, It :wasnot known that the gospel

of the new age, the historic message of which the

treaty of Versailles is only the expression in form, the

note of January 14th, Ig18, on the fourteen points,

was a dzktat. Itwas known only that the fourteenth

point , the most important and the corner-stone of the

whole edifice, provided for the establishment of the

League of Nations. An eminent American. journalist,

Mr. Morton Fullerton, a friend of France, as foreseeing

as he is well-informed, has recently admitted in the

Figaro {ofMarch 23rd to April zoth, 1936) the uncont ro-

vertible proof . He tells US~with documents in support,

that on January srd, !918, a certain M. Sisson,

representing in Petrograd the Committee of Public

Information (one of those organizations which are

the screen of occult powers and have more authority

than the official powers), addressed to President

Wilson a telegram inviting him immediately to make

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a .olemn declaration with regard to the co~~ition. of

a democratic peac~, I? terms caltuIat~d to fac~tat.e prOa

aganda, in RUSSI a I II Germany. I can, . said M.

Eisson, "fill Germany with Ger;nan t rans l~ tlon: and

make the widest use of the E:usslan 'transl~tlOn. In th~

a rmy and eve rywher e ." ','Flve d~yslater in Europe:

says Mr. Fullerton, "a shiver of JOYwas felt, even In

the trenches where they were fighting, and the words

so dictated fell upon Europe like manna f rom Heaven.

Nobody, or rather few of us, knew that .t1ns manna

was poisoned." On January rgth M. SISson cabled

to Washington that the walls of Petrograd . where

the Soviets had received the earliest commum~ab.~n

of Wilson's idea and message were co~e:ed with It.

He added that in Moscow the same publicity .wo~ld be

given to it ; that mi llions ofcopies would be dis tr ibuted

on the Russian front and on the German front. A few

weeks afterwards came the treason of Brest-Litovsk,

then the massacre of the Imperial Fami ly at Ekater inen-

burg, then ...Thus did President Wilson promulgate the Dew

charter of international law so as to be agreeable to

the Soviets. who at the same time were applying it in

their own fashion by the arrest and imprisonment in

the fortress of Peter and Paul of the Minister for

Roumania, M. Diarnandy, by the pillage of .his

archives; by the official burglary of the Itali~n

embassy; by the assassinat~on of the gallant Captain

Crorny in the British embassy, and finally by the

imprisonment of our compatriots amongst whom were

M. Mazon, a professor at the College of Fr~nce and

the chief of the French colony, the heroic Pierre

Darcy, who lost his life soon afterwards as a martyr

to the Cheka,In the reconstruc tion of the skelet on of this monster

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Mr. Morton F~lerton's discovery is similar in imporr,

ance to the discovery of one of those two cervical

vert~bne supporting- the head which, according to

Cuvier's [aw, are descri~ed as typical of an, organism.

At the pac~ at which things are developing to-day the

monster will soon_ seem prehistoric. I possess of it

only a few little broken bones, in the corroborative

remarks of the prophet of Budapest and -of Albert

Thomas to which at the time I heard them I attached

n? importance whatsoever. Without abandoning

himself to hazardous inductions the learned creator

of the science of paleontology would no doubt be able

to reconstruct from such tiny fragments the whole

monster a~d to insert therein in their proper positions

the organically related organs of the revolution and

the ~Iutocracy, I will not take upon myself to apply

to this example of an unknown species his two funda-

ment,allaws: the law of the subordination of organs

by virtue of which some have a sovereign influence

over th~ whole of the others, and the law of the

correlation of forms by which certain characteristics

exist together and are interdependent whilst other,

of nece.s .s ityexclude one another. I re~trict myself to

suggesting these analogies, whilst I leave to those more

learned than myself, especially to the numerous

professors of the League of Nations whose knowledge

IS greate~ than mine, the duty of making a precise

presentanon.

. I leave to them also. the task of establishing the

hierarchy of the organs In their subordination to one

another. Was the . r d l e of dictator assumed by the

Revolution, by the Soviets who must have taken the

initiative in the invitation addressed to President

Wilson by M, Sisson? Or rather, as I am inclined to

think, was not this invitation called for by the

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lutocracy ofNew York, the financiers of the revolution

~ho could refuse it nothing? The plutocracy had

taken the full measure of the President. His reason,

which was 'to founder ill megalomania, was; with,out. a

doubt, already weakening, They could push him m

the direction towards which he leaned by that cable-

gram, dated from Petr,ogr,ad rather than from .~y-

where else) to conjure him III the names of the Russian

and German peoples to be the arbiter ofpeaee and the

saviour of the world. Perhaps the surest means of

communication between American finance and the

White House passed through Russia. On the other

hand, the brusque telegram, already rnentio.ned~ sent

by Jacob H, Schiff, proves that the germanophile, of

New York knew how to get at Mr, Wil,on, without

having recourse to this indirect fire' .Some readers will 'be astonished at meeting Germany

and Russia associated in the same request to President

Wilson and in the enthus iasm aroused by his fourteenpoints. The League of Nations, according to the

fourteenth point, had for its object the provision of

mutual guarantees of political independence and

territorial integrity for small and great states alike.

Did it not therefore raise' an insur.mountable barrier

across the road of German revenge? And how i s one

to explain 'the initiative, spontaneous or otherwise,

of the Soviets who whilst tltey made a pretence of

continuing the stIu~gle '0 as to put the ~Ilies off thescent alreadv took their orders from Berlin? Would

not the whol~ of this story be under suspicion through

its improbability, if the revelation made by Morton

Fullerton, far from being contrad icted, or. ,even

questioned, had not been confirmed by additional

evidence? Not the least bit in the world, for the

intervention of Germany would provide further

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confirmation, if it were necessary. The League of

Nations was conceived at Berl in before i t was hatched

out at Petrograd, We learn this fact from Billow, who

relates that in '9 I/ he wrote to a high official of the

Wilheh11lltrasse,saying to him that " without a doubt in

those days of extreme crisis he no longer found a minute

for rest." Here is his correspondent's reply ~-

"IIis true that we have much to do; we are busyelaborating German proposals for the League of

Nations which, it is to be hoped, will be the best fruit

of the war."

Germany, destined a few year. later to take the

ini tiat ive at Locamo, ,; the fruit of Ceneva," was

already planting, whilst the war was stili being fought,

the spurious ol ive tree which was to produce Locarno.

She was putting into practice the famous maxim of

Clausewitz on the identity of war and. politics,war

being politics and politics being war, each continued

and carried on by the other. This identity brings us

back to Berlin, our point of departure in this circular

trip around war and peace. Itis at Berlin that the

ring is completed, after having traversed [waShington,

Paris, London , Budapest and Petrograd. It is also a

journey in search of a paternity, the paternity of the

League of Nations. The mUID'!! affinities of its

ancestry=plutoeracy, revolution, freemasonry and pan-

germanisrn=-are so close, these affiliations are so

consanguineous and convergent, that it may be

'Wondered whether they are distinct one from another

and if there is not beneath them all another identity.

Idealism, the blind idealism which watched over the

cradle of the League, is dearly not one of its fathers.

Idealism was there only to provide an alibi for them,

to acknowledge their child, to confer upon it the civil

status and connections which would help it to make its

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YbriUiantly in the world. The real fathers disown

~~I1 the interests of its career, but in vain. .Th~ child

gives them the lie, not intentionally, but by : t s . hken~sto them which becomes more and more .s~nkin~_ a~ It

groW' up and by evinc!n\l for them a ~ohCllude which

would. be inexphcable If It were not filml. )

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